Collins Albatross Book of Verse: English and American Poetry from the Thirteenth Century to the Present Day |
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Page 273
1 Strong is the horse upon his speed ; Strong in pursuit the rapid glede , Which makes at once his game ; Strong the tall ostrich on the ground ; Strong through the turbulent profound Shoots xiphias ? to his aim .
1 Strong is the horse upon his speed ; Strong in pursuit the rapid glede , Which makes at once his game ; Strong the tall ostrich on the ground ; Strong through the turbulent profound Shoots xiphias ? to his aim .
Page 504
Greet the morn With a double horn , When strong men drink together ! Comrades , gird your swords to - night , For the battle is with dawn . Oh , the clash of shields together , With the triumph coming on ! Greet the foe And lay him low ...
Greet the morn With a double horn , When strong men drink together ! Comrades , gird your swords to - night , For the battle is with dawn . Oh , the clash of shields together , With the triumph coming on ! Greet the foe And lay him low ...
Page 549
Strong men put up a city and got a nation together , And paid singers to sing and women to warble : We are the greatest city , the greatest nation , nothing like us ever was .
Strong men put up a city and got a nation together , And paid singers to sing and women to warble : We are the greatest city , the greatest nation , nothing like us ever was .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Collins Albatross Book of Verse: English and American Poetry from the Thirteenth Century to the Present Day School edition |
| Editor | Louis Untermeyer |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Collins, 1960 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 672 pages |
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